funny (if not necessarily "passive-aggressive") notes from pissed-off people

Over the (top) rainbow

Writes Tom in Cleveland: “In the parking garage of my apartment building, some B parked in assigned spot 144, which belonged to another B, who then covered B1′s Jeep in harshly-worded notes on multi-colored construction paper.”

Depends on where you live, I think. Where I am, if you own your spot (purchased and pay property taxes on it) you can have it ticketed and towed. If your building owns it, then only the building managers can have it ticketed and towed.

Our old apartment complex had assigned spaces and the towing company was posted on the front of the gates leading into the complex. My husband had no problem calling that number and getting someone towed out of his spot.

While I think this is 4 notes too many, I am sympathetic to the parking spot owner. I’ve lived in an apartment where parking spots where paid for, and there’s nothing worse than coming home, tired from a long day, and finding some strange car in YOUR very expensive parking spot. It’s rage inducing. Getting the car towed is a pain, and by that time, you’ve already had to park your car somewhere else. I think there is a special circle in hell for people who steal parking spots.

We had a similar issue in our building that we just moved in to. We have one car and an allocated spot. Obviously some people had two. One night I came down and every single car had four flat tyres. And no valves. There were FIVE of them. Now we always have free visitor spots, including the disabled.

Still not a bad as hearing some douchebag honk endlessly because someone is in his spot. I had to listen to the honking for at least 10 straight minutes before he finally have up. I’m sure it must be terrible to have someone steal your paid spot, but at our complex there was ample free parking. (So why did the person steal a paid, covered spot? I don’t know.)

we used to live in an apartment. our space was right by the walkway to the next building, AND some “B” ran a daycare out of her apartment. EVERY FREAKING DAY DURING THE WEEK, my spot was taken by someone “just picking up their kid.” We finally just parked in back of their cars and left to go eat dinner.

When I was in the Marines I worked for the base telephone company. People who had residential phone service on base would drop by our office to pay their bills. On one occassion this Marine parked his Trans Am in the designated spot for our senior Master Gunnery Sergeant. You know, leathered skin, stripes down to his wrist, permanent hook in his index finger from holding a coffee cup. The Marine came out to find his car blocked by the Master Gun’s car. He then commenced to drive over the sidewalk, ripping off his air dam in the process, drive across the grass, all the while the air dam dug a trench in the grass. Yeah, Master Gun’s found out who it was (easy enough, he just paid his bill) and had him fix the grass over the weekend.

It doesn’t matter if it’s the “worst thing that has happened” to a person or not (notewriter didn’t bring it up so I don’t know why you are) – all that matters is you are effectively stealing money from a person by parking in a paid spot. That makes you a thief. Simple as that.

Probably one of the 10,000 friends saw this gem and, cackling with glee, brought it to PAN. Also, 10,000 Facebook friends? I wonder how many of them friended her, and then immediately blocked her posts from their newsfeed?

I’m from a college town (Iowa City). If you’re parking for free, something is very wrong. This is why I never, ever park in someone else’s designated spot, even for “Just a minute.” Where I’m from, free parking = you will be towed.

Someone parked in my spot once and I had them towed. They then left a very nasty, threatening, profanity-laced note on my car. My modus operandi from that point on was to leave a note that said “You parked in my spot. Please don’t do it again. Thanks.” That did the trick.

Unless they aren’t the type to do that and they truly didn’t realize the spot was reserved. It depends on how parking is done in that particular area.

I’ve also noticed that those who live where parking is unregulated don’t understand reserved parking in residential areas. They may see the “reserved” marking and correect themselves, but first instinct is just to park wherever that’s close to the residence. The entire time I lived in the townhouse, I heard complaints from the relatives – all of whom live where parking isn’t regulated – about passing perfectly good parking spaces to park in the remote visitor parking. Every. Time.

Mind, I’m not fond of the PAN technique of parking enforcement, but if it worked…..

Here in the Twin Cities, reserves spots specifically say that they are reserved and that unauthorized vehicles will be towed. If someone’s going to see that signage and claim ignorance, they are too stupid to be on the road driving a 2,000+ pound vehicle.

I can’t help but wonder, after they walked back the two blocks, do you think they walked all the way upstairs and back to get the construction paper? Or do you think they had it on them.
In some ways I kinda admire the stubborn committment to the passive aggressive. But it would please me greatly if ‘management’ towed the car and fined the note leaver for littering.

c) Purchase two times “2 Piece 1500 Lb. Capacity Vehicle Wheel Dollies” (for a total of four (4) dollies)

[Yeah, that will set you back about $190, but you'll keep that stuff for the next time, so the more it happens the cheaper each instance becomes - and it is so worth it]

d) Put the offending vehicle on the dollies under use of the floor jack

e) Roll that offending vehicle into a spot where it can not easily [or even better "not at all"] moved by regular vehicle operation (i.e. driving and steering) – e.g. front/back of the car straight between two pillars with only an inch of space on each side, in a 45 degree angle into a 90 degree corner with basically *no* space between the wall and the bumper etc.

f) Remove dollies and your jack

g) Hilarity ensues when the owner of the offending vehicle comes back and must call a towing company to get the car out (because the owner can’t get it out by him-/herself).

In high school, I always locked my car when I had to leave it at the school all day on a weekend (when we would be gone all day for a softball tournament). Susie and Missy didn’t see the need. So one night we got back to the school late, and Missy’s car (Mustang II series) was resting on top of Susie’s station wagon hood (perpendicular to Susie’s car). Another night, Susie’s wagon had been pushed quite a ways from the parking lot and down onto the football field. It took us a while to figure out where her car was in the dark.

My good ol’ 1976 Nova was save in the back parking lot, locked, and too far away for them to push anywhere interesting.

While serving on a strata council, I received death threats (scrawled on my mailbox) after calling a tow truck to have a car removed from a parking spot. The car owners showed up just as the tow truck arrived. Fun times!

any of you ever call for service people? many complexes have no visitor parking or a difficult to decode marking system for parking. i try to comply with parking rules but i have only so much time in my day. i recently got a cranky note for parking in someone’s spot – i was in their spot because i was one number off from where i meant to be but geez, the whole rest of the lot was empty.

I don’t know where you live, but almost every complex I’ve lived in and/or visited in both Texas and Oregon clearly marked the spaces people paid for. The ones that didn’t, it was kind of easy to figure out (covered spaces are obviously paid for spaces).

That being said, if someone pays for a spot, it is theirs, not yours. If one of my neighbors had guests who just decided to start parking in my driveway without asking, I’d be pretty ticked.

When I had a reserved space, I generally gave service vehicles a pass. You know that vehicles isn’t going to be there all night. It’s just there while the driver delivers something, fixes something, or installs something. A regular vehicle – who knows?

You’d think that, but my car is currently off down the street because someone in the next street drives a service vehicle and brings it home, but parks it out front of me instead of wasting his own space. So I get home from late shift and have to leave my car down by visitor overflow parking because dickface’s service vehicle is going to be there all night. It’s not paid, so I can’t do much, but the fact that he knows what the system is, knows that each house gets one spot and there’s overflow for any additional or visitors, and yet chooses to park in my space…he’s intentionally arsey.

I parked in a “red” permit lot once when they expanded our quantity of permits. I parked WAY in the back as it was new & I prefer that. I come out to find a note stating I was parked in a supervisor’s spot & threatening to have me towed, yada, yada, yada. So, this bitch actually had a problem with me possibly giving a closer spot to someone else, whatever position they held. The next day I parked the row directly IN FRONT of the spot the day before, that was supposedly NOT for supervosors & left my own note cause she seemed like they type that would laugh seeing it thinking someone else gave me hell. It told her where to go & to get over herself cause she’s not as imporant as she thinks she is, no matter what her job title is. And I reminded her SHE cannot have anyone towed. Only security can after about 6 violations, that are only written up by the grounds police.

And you aren’t so important to think the rules shouldn’t apply to you. I bet the spot was clearly labeled too. You should have just admitted your mistake and moved on instead of acting like a bitch, bitch.

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